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Commiserating with Devastated Things : Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking / Jason M. Wirth.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823268207
  • 9780823268221
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.8/635 23
LOC classification:
  • PG5039.21.U6 Z94 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Tamina at the Border -- 2. Caught Looking -- 3. Laughter -- 4. Dogs and History -- 5. Kitsch -- 6. Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel -- 7. Novel Idiocy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Summary: Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." Working through Kundera's oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms-not applies-philosophical reflection within literature.Reading between Kundera's work and his self-avowed tradition, from Kafka to Hermann Broch, Wirth asks what it might mean to insist that philosophy does not have a monopoly on wisdom, that the novel has its own modes of wisdom that challenge philosophy's.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Tamina at the Border -- 2. Caught Looking -- 3. Laughter -- 4. Dogs and History -- 5. Kitsch -- 6. Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel -- 7. Novel Idiocy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

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Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls "the universe of the novel." Working through Kundera's oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms-not applies-philosophical reflection within literature.Reading between Kundera's work and his self-avowed tradition, from Kafka to Hermann Broch, Wirth asks what it might mean to insist that philosophy does not have a monopoly on wisdom, that the novel has its own modes of wisdom that challenge philosophy's.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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